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This is a preliminary transcript of the Gemini 7 technical debriefing, dated December 23, 1965, from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It was made from tape recordings of the crew debriefing held December 19 to 21, 1965 at the Crew Quarters, Cape Kennedy, Florida. In it, Frank Borman and Jim Lovell go through countdown, powered flight, insertion, station keeping with the booster, systems, experiments and training. The table of contents also lists a section on visual sightings during orbital flight.
From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: December 19-21, 1965, Cape Kennedy, Florida. This document is a preliminary transcript derived from voice recordings of the Gemini 7 flight crew debriefing conducted December 19-21, 1965, at the Crew Quarters, Cape Kennedy, Florida. Lights and flashes are mentioned and there is discussion about having proper illumination for vehicle docking. Borman and Lovell discuss celestial and terrestrial observational anomalies and note sightings of Mercury, meteors, aurora, and lightning. They also discuss not being able to see any stars once the Sun comes up.
“Frank Borman”10 pages
158 in the daylight--of course the site was not manned because of the few pa sses we'd have to have . When we were over Australia we didn't have attitude contro l . Lovell We might menti o.n one thing. I think with the l ong flight like we had , if we ha d the fuel we could have become more skilled in observing the site and probably have gotten better results . Borman No , we coul d not have on thi s o.ne , because after the 3rd day the clouds were the factor the whol e t i me. We had only 3 days to observe that , a.nd everything e l s e was c l oudy. Lovell Okay , it was cloudy, but I suspect that the more pa sses over the thing, you woul d get better. But we just did not have the fuel and the weather was bad. 11, 5 Synoptic terrain ( S-5 ) and weather (s-6) photogra phy Borman Synoptic terra i n a.nd weather photography. On unusual or significant subject matter. Well , it turns out we did not have any unusual or significant subject matter as f ar as I know . We t ook the s equences and we took a l ot of it as genera l photography that was not even called up . Most of the time , it had t o be done i n drifting flight. We were sorry about this , but there was not the fuel availabl e. The two sequences that wer e called up (where we were allocated the fue l from the ground) we t ook them. I hope they were well done. We did get some
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